The Clifton clarion., 1887-06-08
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 A bright man-A lamplighter.
 Oil of lavender will drive away
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 \ music expert says only ono mati in l 1,000 can whistle tune.
 New Orleans was founded hy a company of French adventurers in l743.
 There is more railway travel in Massachusetts than in any other State in the Union.
 The name of NJ. de Giers, the Rus san minister of Foreign Affairs, is pronounced "Geeren.
 According to the London TiRrs the price of diamonds has steadily fallen from $l5 to S3.75 per karat.
 Prussia has now l7,759,lI4 adher- snts of the Evangelical Church, o. 20 1929 Roman Catholics, and 357,- f5i Jews.
 A Texan, who has lived for years smong the cowboys, says that many Df them are graduates of Eastern colleges.
 Chattanooga, Tenn, has grown since the war from clump of white washed warehouses and shanties to city of 2. 5.000 inhabitants.
 MT. Zachariah Montgomery, a Cal iornia lawyer. is the Assistant At torney- General for the Interior De- partment, Washington.
 Rev Dr. John P. Newman Grants rastor) has, it is authoritatively an nounced, returned again to the Meth odist communion.
 Two hundred years ago there was R fish in the Arabian seas so large That the natives sawed it into blanks, which they used to make roofs for their houses.
 A town in Buffalo County, Dakota, has been named in honor oi the first lady resident. Slade. Mrs. Slade was nearly killed in cyclone there il 1883.
 Robert Collyer says the scientific length of q sermon is thirty minutes. IT q mn has anything at all worth saving he can say it in that time without repeating himself.
 The oldest of the existing religions was established by Zoroaster, in Persia, about 200 years E. C. The youngest was "revealed" to Joseph Smith in 1927.
 Since 1870 France has had nineteen different cabinets, headed by fourteen different premiers-that is, as many rabinets in fifteen years as England has had since 1927.
 An infidel colony in Missouri, after five years experience, is falling to pieces. The people are continually wrangling, and 'it's q wise child that knows its own father in that town.
 The lower grade sailors on the Rus sian man-oi-war at New York receive only Sl per month wages. They ad mire everything in New York ex- rcpting the American vodki, which they think too weak.
 An Englishman has offered prize of S2,500 ''ior the invention or dis rovery of an economical, efficient, and safe substitute for gunpowder and other explosives employed in the getting of coal"
 Mark Twain told the Nassar Col lege students that his usual price for reading was $500. but that there he was quite satisfied to take 90 cents and get the other S491.5 50 in looking at the girls.
 Mime. Ristori, accompanied by her husband, the Marquis del Grillo, and her daughter Blanche, sailed from New York the other day for Europe. 4 number of the friends of the dis tinguished Italian actress went down 10 the steamship to see her off.
 With the death. fortnight ago, at BaIngerg, Bavaria, of the famous Baron AaximoiIion Von Paulus, the Paulus family become extinct, and it's coat-ot-arms was solemnly broken and cast into his open grave upon his coiiinlid. Princess Mathilde is a ve.y affec- donate creature. When NJ. de Les seps delivered his recent speech at the reception of the French Academy, the overioyed Princess said: My l dear LesSeps, 1 can't help it, must l kiss you." 'tDo." briefly replied de l Lesssps. And she did.
 There is an outcry in London against the encore nuisance. "There | was a long rambling concert at the Albert Hall last week." saws the Figaro, "at which Mime. Nilsson, !. Sims Reeves, and Antoinette Sterling | all sang. Several pieces had to be left out or no one would have got to bed that night"
 F. J. Fargus, well known as ''IIugh Conway" author of Called Back" died at Monaco recently. He had been sick several months with ty- phoid fever. He was thirty-seven years old. From his youth he was q dahblcr in literature, writing ballads and sketches. The enormous sales of Called Back" brought him q fort unc in the last year of his life.
 Col. J. Armo-y Knox. of Tcras SifiiRgs, lecturcd in New York in be- half of the BaItholdi Pedestal Fund. Among other bright remarks, he said: ''The English have something which passes current for humor, and which is not, l assure you, 10 be